photography

I really really liked my Nexus 5. Really. I had it almost 2 years and it was still every bit as capable as when I first got it. But sadly, a week or so ago, the power button started failing (apparently many other N5 owners have fallen victim to this) and it fell into a …

One of the things on my relatively short list to Santa this year was a new tripod. The one he brought me a few years back finally gave up the ghost when the plasticky knob thingy that tightens the plasticky pan head from rotating on its plasticky stem tore loose from its plasticky housing leaving …

It isn’t every day that your surroundings provide you with wonderful soft light both from above and below. I took this shot a day or two ago during our walk through the forest. It was a fluke. And I simply love it. :)

Very proud of the way my daughter is playing soccer these days. No lack of effort for sure. I shot a couple of clips the other night with my Canon 7D using my 75-300 lens and edited them up quickly using Blender 2.5. The original was shot at 1280×720 at 60fps in manual mode with …

Last night we had a mean set of thunderstorms roll through our area – the worst we’ve seen in quite a while. In the midst of trying to get my daughter to settle down (blackouts are tremendous fun don’tcha know), I decided to dust off the tripod and have a little bit of fun. We …

Back in February or March, my trusty Flip Ultra camera stopped working. Granted, I wasn’t being all that careful with it, even thowing it into my coat pocket along with my car keys and other stuff. Shame on me really. I was disappointed that it died, under the manufacturer’s instructions I took out the batteries …

The holiday season always seems to give me the much needed opportunity to take a lot of photographs. Mostly they’re snapshots, but now and again you get something impressive. Once again I implore any DSLR owners to go out and purchase a fixed length, fast 50mm lens. I bought a 50mm f1.8 lens for my …

Back on our May long weekend, we decided to opt for conservative parenting and didn’t take our daughter to see the fireworks (too late and too little sleep we figured), but we made the promise that she’d definitely get to see them on Canada Day. So last night we went. While Em, along with hundreds …

If you’re interested in a super-slick way to browse images (on Flickr, Google Image Search, Picasa, Facebook or any of almost 20 different sites), and you’re using Firefox (Windows/Mac), Safari or even IE, then check out Piclens. On my XP machine at work I’ve installed the Piclens add-on for FF3 (there’s one for FF2 as …

I was in a Wal-Mart up here in Aurora Ontario this weekend, and while sauntering by the electronics section I saw a couple of Flip Video cameras on display for sale. The price was something close to $155.00 as I recall. Up until now I think the Flip Camera was sold exclusively in the States. …